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To: Diana in Wisconsin

I don’t know how many of you lived on the East Coast in ‘93 during the 1993 Storm of the Century, but on the Outer Banks where I lived at the time the storm was easily as bad as any hurricane (and I’ve gone through six or seven).


6 posted on 12/26/2025 10:47:17 AM PST by packagingguy
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To: packagingguy

I did.

Western Maryland.

We got buried.

It was horrible.


10 posted on 12/26/2025 10:54:41 AM PST by Salamander ( Please visit my profile page to help me go home again. https://www.givesendgo.com/GCRRDa)
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To: packagingguy
I'll never forget the 1987 Sun Bowl in El Paso. The day before, it was about 80 degrees at noon. A cold front made its way over the Guadalupe Pass, and the temperature dropped 40 degrees in a couple of hours.

On Game Day, the temps were in the 20s with some snow to boot. It was an excellent game, but I mostly remember how cold we were.

12 posted on 12/26/2025 10:57:11 AM PST by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It! I’m )
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To: packagingguy; Salamander

13 inches of snow at the Birmingham, AL airport March 12-14, 1993. MARCH! In ALABAMA!! Some parts of neighboring counties had 17 inches of snow.


18 posted on 12/26/2025 11:07:19 AM PST by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: packagingguy
Outer Banks where I lived at the time the storm was easily as bad as any hurricane

It was like a hurricane in central FL, storm surge in the Big Bend area that drowned people, huge rainfall, strong winds, and tornadoes in sundry places. It also was the beginning of the end for many citrus trees, including those in backyards on my block.

23 posted on 12/26/2025 11:12:29 AM PST by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: packagingguy

I was in Greensboro NC and my daughter was born 9 months after that storm.


33 posted on 12/26/2025 11:43:46 AM PST by AppyPappy (They don't call you a Nazi because they think you are one. They do it to justify violence. )
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To: packagingguy

I lived on the Maryland Eastern Shore, and I don’t remember it.


47 posted on 12/26/2025 12:57:10 PM PST by wintertime ( )
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We were living in coastal New Jersey at the time. The worst part was that, after a heavy snowfall, it was immediately followed by hurricane like conditions with howling winds and heavy rain with a quickly dropping temperature which left a thick coating of ice on top of eighteen inches of snow. When we went out the next morning to begin shoveling ourselves out, we practically needed a pick axe to break through the rock-like sheath of ice covering everything


56 posted on 12/26/2025 4:19:17 PM PST by clive bitterman
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